Invoice-holder.



R. c. BENDER. 'mvolcE HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED )LILY 5,1911.

Patented Feb. 19,1918.

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.To ail whom it' may concern:

ROBERT C. BENDER, E ST. LOUIS, EVIISSOUR.

INVOICE-HOLDER.

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Specification of Letters IEatent.

Patented Feb. iid, ill..

sppncation mea my 5, 191?. serial no. 178,675.

Be it known that l, ROBERT C. BENDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have inventedA a certain new and usefulimprovement in Invoice-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same, reference behig had to theaccompanying drawings,forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an invoice holder, the principal object of myinvention being to provide a comparatively simple, inexpensive holderwhich is adapted to receive and hold in a convenient manner invoicesheets or slips such as are usually employed by business houses andparticularly'those engaged in the selling and distributing ofmerchandise.

A further object of my invention is to provide a holder to which theinvoice sheets can be easily and quickly'applied orfrom which they canbe readily removed, said invoice sheets being retained upon the holderin such a manner as to permit portions of the sheets to be readilyraised or folded over in order to show certain data on the lowermostinvoice sheets, this provision being essential in order to facilitatethe work of the bookkeeper or clerk in making out the customersstatements and in checking ott the cash receipts, bills payable and thelike. After being removed from the holder, the invoices are placed insuitable containers and constitute a permanent record.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists incertain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts,hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and'illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front or face view of aninvoice holder of my improved construction and showing an invoice sheetor slip in position thereupon;

Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the rear side of the holder;

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the holder; and

Fig. d is a detail end elevation of the holder and showing portions ofthe invoice sheets thereupon turned upward in order to disclose theportions of the faces of the low ermost sheets.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings, l0 designates thebody ofmy improved holder, the same being formed of a rectangularsection oir sheet of comparatively thin material such as cardboard,`andv formed in the lower portion thereof is a centrally arranged arcuateslot 11, the same being disposed so as to form an upwardly presentedtongue 12.

Positioned on the front face of the eX- treme lower portion of the body10 is-a transversely disposed strip 13 of metal, the same being securedto the bodyy l0 inany suitable manner, preferably by means of rivetsligand formed integral with the central portion of this metal strip isan upwardly projecting tongue or linger 15. This tongue or fingerextends beneath a trans` versely disposed strip 16 which is formed byslotting the tongue l2 and immediately above this strip the tongue orfinger is bent outwardly as designatedv by 17- and thence upwardly andthe upper end of said tongue or linger is pressed inwardlyvto form aboss or projection 18 which normally bears with yielding pressuredirectly against the face of the body l0 or against the invoice sheetpositioned thereupon.

By bending the tongue or finger .outwardly as designated by 17, theupper portionof the body of said tongue or finger is spaced apart .fromthe body of the holder which provision permits a number of invoicesheets to be po sitioned upon the holder without exerting any wedgingaction upon the tongue.

Positioned onvthe central portion of the rear face of the body 10 is alongitudinally vdisposed strip 19, preferably of meta1,",the

same acting as a stiftening device and reinforcing member for saidholder, the lower end of said strip being fixed to the body of theholder by means of a staple 2O or the like, l i

which latter is seated in the central portion of strip 13. IThe upperend of this reinforcing strip 19 is secu-red tothe upper portion of bodyl0 by means of a rivet 2O or the like and pivotally secured to saidrivet and disposed on the front face of the holder is a,

neath the rivet 20, and the lower end of this keeper is depressedto forma boss 23 which bears directly against the face of the body 10 oragainst the invoice sheet positioned thereupon.

Formed in the side edges of the body 10 a short distance below the topthereo'l are' notches 24e which are adapted to serve as seats for anelastic band 25 which latter can be readily applied to or removed fromthe holder and which can be used for retaining the side edges of theinvoices flat against the holder while the latter is temporarily out ofuse, and liled away in a suitable holder or cabinet. i

To place an invoice sheet on my improved holder, the keep-er 21 isturned laterally and upwardly to `the position illustrated by dottedlines in Fig. l, and the upper end of the resilient tongue 15 is nowengaged and pulled away from the face of the holder, which action willpull the upper portion of tongue l2 outwardly with respect to the planeoccupied by the body of the holder, thus en abling the lower edge of theinvoice sheet A to be inserted behind the tongue or finger and into thearcuate slot 11.

Tongue or linger 15 is now released, thereby permitting the same and thetongue 12 to resume their normal position and in so doing, the lowercentral portion of the invoice sheet V will be firmly gripped and heldin proper position upon the face of the holder. The keeper 21 isnowswung downwardly into position over the upper edge of the invoicesheet-and thus said sheet will be conveniently held until the ordercovered .by

said invoice sheet is disposed of and until the proper data from saidsheet are transferred to proper books or record sheets.

In the event that there are a number of invoices for one customer andwhich possibility is very likely to occur where a business house has anumber of regular customers making several purchases per day, week ormonth, the additional invoices can be successively placed on the holderand when the bookkeeper or proper clerk desires to trans- 'fer theaccounts on the various invoices to placed on holder vand the latter visteinporarily out of service Aand placed in a suitl able cabinet orcontainer, van elastic band -is slipped over thev upper portion of thebody and the invoice sheets thereon, said band being seated in thenotches 24e and thus the sides of the invoice sheets are held -flat uponthe holder so that they will not'tend to be-J` vides an efficient andconvenient time and c labor saving device for all business houses usinginvoice sheets and the like.

It will be readily understood that minor changesin the size, form andconstruction of the various parts of my improved invoice holder can vbemade and substituted for those herein shown and described, withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention, the

scope of which 'is set'forth in the appended claims.

I claim: f

body.

2. In a device of the class described, a body, a resilient tongue on thelower portion of the front face of said body, and there being notchesformed in the side edges of said body near the upper end thereof.

In a device of the class described, a body, a resilient tongue on thelower portion of the front face of said bod there being notches formedin the side e ges of said body near the upper end thereof, and apivotally mounted eeper on the upper portion of the face of said body.

4f. In a device ofthe class described, a

body formed of thin sheet metal, there being an arcuate slot formed inthe lower central portion of said body, which slot is arranged so thatthe material below it forms an upwardly projecting tongue, andtherebeing notches formed in the side edges of the upper portion of saidbody, which notches are ladapted to provide seats for an elastic meiner.c

5. In a device of the class described, a body formed of comparativelythin sheet material slotted near its lower end to form an upwardlyprojecting tongue, a tongue of resilient material connected to saidfirst mentioned tongue and extending upwardly against the front face ofthe body, and a keeper pivotally mounted on the front face of the upperportion of said body.

6. In a device of the class described, e

body formed of comparatively thinr sheet upper portion of said body, andthere being material s lotted near its lower end to form notches formedin the side edges of the body an upwardly projecting tongue, a tongue ofnear the upper end thereof. 4 1

resihent material Connected to said rst men- In testimony whereof Ihereunto aflix my 5 tioned tongue and extending upwardly signature this3d day of July, 1917.

against the front face of the body, a keeper v p1vota'l1y mounted on thefront face yof the HUBERT C. BENDER.

